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TOPICS OF THE DAY.
Boston is to have a free Hebrew '
school. i
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Petv.oleum oil has been discovered in -i
Colorado.
There are 268,830 pensioners in the '
United States.
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President Arthur will sign no tenl
.peranee pledge.
Smoking is not allowed at polling
placets Tn Boston.
Tennessee has supplied the Mormons ,
with 125 converts.
Guiteac is pretty certain to live
through the holidays.
Judge FoLOEithns taken charge of the ,
United States Treasury.
American oleomargairine is sold for
Holland butter in England.
The World’s Fair project seems to i
have '.bout fallen through with.
The desire for American independence 1
is manifesting itself iu Canada.
Baldwin is very contrite. lie calls ■
himself both a knave and a fo»>l.
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The production of raisins in California i
this year is estimated at $500,000.
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Susan B. Anthony wants tho name of |
Pullman cars changed to Pull-man-and- i
woman.
Froude is of the opinion that England
can not rule Ireland. May be she can’t,
but she does.
The New York Produce Exchange has I
decided to erect a new building at a rest
of $2,000,000.
And so the Star Route rascals escaped
the first batch of charges? Still the l;
charges remain.
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Keely, the motor man, asks for three
months more to perfect his invention.
He may have it.
The stars and stripes were vociferously
cheered in the streets of London on I
Lord Mayor's Day.
It requires but twenty-six hours now
to go from New York to Chicago. The
distance is 900 miles.
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It ib estimated that $60,000,000 is in
vested in jewelry in the United States,
exclusive of silverware.
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Brady's anxiety tor vindication seems
to have waned—gone clear out. It must
have been a myth in the first place.
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New York has responded most liber
ally to the appeal of the Michigan suffer
ers. She contributed something over
$125,000.
Archibaud Forbes, the war enrrespon
«lent, will write a serial for a London
newspaper under the title of “ The South
of To-day.”
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And now, for pefsorial comfort, we
long for just one slice of tho warm
‘weather we hail hist summer to stir in
with the winter.
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Coal at Cincinnati sells at $5 a ton,
and Cincinnati is on the river leading to
Pittsburg, too. It seems that the coal
crop failed also.
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Siberia has a population of 1,385,000,
and has an area of 8,000,000 square
miles. Russia claims that her object is
to populate the country.
The Courier-journal says that in
New Jersey it is “ Over the Bank to the
Poorhouse.” This-fe not quite right.
For '’Poorhouse n read “Money-vault.”
St. Louis has eleven murderers in
jail, and the papers intimate that if
there is not a “ hanging bee ” soon, the
citizens may lose control of themselves.
Public opinion respecting the guilt of
the Star'Routers has not been ass eted
a particle by the dismissal of the case on
a technical flaw. They still stand con
victed.
A hotel is to be built in Toledo in
which there will be no bar-room at
tached. but in ite stead a small chapel
where guests may hold religious ser i
vices.
Those who expect to hear Ad< 1 e <
Patti sing may as well commence nov.
to save up their money. From all we
can learn the popular price of adtns-iii:
will be $lO.
Clara Louise Kellogg is soon to b
married, and the happy mortal is naue d
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The North Georgian.
VOL. IV.
I
Whitney. They say he followed her
i about and deviled her till she just had
( to give up.
New York seems to have eaught the
disease from Ohio, The election returns
show that they did a great deal of
scratching there. The ticket elected is
I a mixed one.
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Fanny Mills, living at Snndnshy.
Ohio, Ims very large feet, ns feet go.
The right one is twenty-two inches lon
and the left one nineteen. She origi
nally lived in Chicago,
It looks now as if the consump
tion of smoke in Cincinnati is io he
an actual fact. Tho ordinance has
passed both Boards of Common C. >un
cil and been signed by the Mayor
Mahonb is a man of very small stature
and light weight, but there is perhaps
not a man in Virginia who feels his In li
more than he does. Just now there is
some thing more than a ton of him.
Mbs. Sartoris nee Miss Nellie Grant,
her husband and two of their three chil
dren are visiting the old f Iks in New
York, but some how or other, are not
attracting so much attention as usual.
When Gladstone rises to speak he
clasps his hands behind his back. This
attitude prevails, however, only during
the opening sentences. Once warmed
up, his gestures are rapid, almost furi
ous.
Mr. Labouchere, in his journal,
Truth, declares that tho late Baron
Janies De Rothschild lost on the Bourse
in October 80,000,1)00 francs or $16,001),-
000, and that this loss was the cause of
his death.
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Patti will start out by singing
“Home, Sweet Home,” because, she
says, America is still her heme, and she
expects an encore that, when sized up,
will look something like a hundred
thousand dollars or thereabouts.
It is hard to believe that Brady was
in earnest when ho demanded an early
tiial and consequent vindication. He
doubtless is willing to wear the stigma
that has been placed upon him for the
profits he has made in the Star Route
business.
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A negro woman living in Meridan,
Mississippi, Inis given birth in thirteen
years to fourteen children, six pair of
the child, en being twins. The father of
these children, who is sixty-four years of
age, is the father of thirty-seven living
children.
Harvard University replied to the re
quest of Miss Kate E. Morris, a graduate
of Smith College, for admission to can
didacy for the degree of Doctor of
Philosophy, that “the corporation arc
not prepared to admit women as candi
dates for a degree.”
The editor of the Indiana ,S'f'ife*>nan,
at Terre Haute, has been sentenced to
twenty-five days in jail and to pay a fine
>f S3)O, on conviction of crituii al libel.
A ■ an < (liter's avocation is that of tliink
: ing, what a golden opportunity this will
i afford, and no annoyances, either.
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At thf. approaching coronation of the
(Czar and Czarina the ivory throne of
: Con tanti ic, tho last Fniperor of Con
stantinople, is to be used. The (!z :) iea
is 11 occupy a throne adorned with 876
■ diamonds and rubies, and 1,223 sapphires,
1 turquoises and pearls of the first water.
Mlle. Elise, the famous circus rider
. of Paris, is credited with being a daughter
of the Emperor of Austria. Her circus
• dress is spangled with diamonds, and
' diamonds gleam from her hair as, stand-
I ing with one foot upon her flying steed,
she directs with her other toe the atten
tion of her audienc i to the zenith.
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According to the extra census bulle
tin just issued, the gnat wheat States
are Illinois, which raised 51,000,000
bnsnels; Indiana, 47,000,000; Ohio, 46,-
00,1,000; Michigan, 35,000,000; lowa,
, 51,000,000; California, 29,000,000 ; Mis-
J souri, 25,000,000, and Wisconsin, 24,-
i 000,000. In three States were produced
■ nearly three-fourths of the whole wheat
crop of the country.
The King of Ashantee is a very good
sort of a being. The State buildings
needed repairing, and he desired to show
I how sacrificing a personage he was, and
I so he had 200 young girls, or maidens,
killed for the purpose of using their
blood to mix the mortar. He neglected
i to tap liis own fiendish heart, however.
These massacres, it is said, are custom
ary with the king.
It is reported that the Sultan has
ordered the ruins of Solomon's Temple
to be preserved, and the surrounding
place to be cleared of rubbish. Near
BELLTON. BANKS COUNTY. GA.. NOVEMBER IT. 1881.
the place stands the Mosque of Omar, ;
the revenue of which is said to be £l5O,- ;
000 a year. Hitherto this sum has been
sent to Constantinople, but it is now to
be appropriated to clearing the site of 1
the Temple. This act of the Sultan is
believed to be a result of the visit of the
Crown Prince of Austria to Jerusalem. ]
Mb. Parnell, the Land League chief,
owns some house property in Dublin, on
which the tenants complain of very high
r. uts, but he states that the tenants are
of the hiudlor.l class, and that stick
property is not to ho regarded in the
same category with agri ultuf.il. His
agricultural property consists of 4,678
aeresin the County of Wicklow, estimated
by Griffith's valuation at £1,215 per
annum. The farms are let at the poor
aw valuation, which iu some parts of
Ireland is higher, iu others less, than
Griffith's. Rents are regularly paid,
Arabs are very lively in talk, quick,
lull of gesticulations and arguments, in
quisitive, great chatterers, shout, rs, and
screamers. They surpass .the Jews in i
fanciful names. From the swarms of
girls in the seminary at Beirut, con
ducted by American ladies, the follow 1
ing names have been set down in Eng
lish translation: Miss Fascinating Fly,
Miss Sociable Slider, Miss Safe ('hatter
er, Miss Victor Camel Driver, Miss
Benevolent Old Shoo, Miss Pink Thick 1
Lip, Miss Enough, Miss Diamond Mo
hisses Maker, Miss Blessed Butter ; ■
Maker, and so on. , ,
Learn a I ntfle.
It is very evident that a great din- ;
proportion exists, as regards education,
between that kind which is needed and
is of practical importance, and that |,
which is not; but which thousands ac- I ,
quire without any definite purpose; and ,
if they decide upon some pursuit it is ,
not chosen with that regard to their ,
(jiialitii ations and deficiencies which the j
importance of the question requires. I .
'1 he young man who thinks he will
In a lawyer, a doctor, or a minister, and j
hopes to attain success, must decide |
on his choice of any profession by some- | ,
th.tig beside his own ambition and con- i ,
ceil in th" matter as to liL fituoas and i
ability for the same. The desire to fill i
a high nd influential position is land- I
able only when it is not disproportion- i
at • to one’s ability. ,
One of tho strongest incentives that :
influences many to rir h into the pro- j
If ions tithout that careful delibcrn
limi v.hi.-h the subject, demands, is the
iib a thin those avocations will reflect |
more honor mid credit upon them than
a trade, but instead of such honoring
th- profession, the reverse is glaringly j
apparent, that.a large proportion of them
are ;Hilly out of place.
It docs ln>t require much sagacity to
see t ’at oil" had better be a good him
ber-.miii than a third-rate lawyer, a first
class mechanic than aquack doctor.
There are those who have spent a
great, deal of time and money iu study- |
ing Latin and Greek, and many other '
thin s, Which never did them any good, i
practically speaking, and have learned
too late that their time might have been 1
employed to far la tter advantage.
Many young men, after years spent in |
misdiri eted elTort, have had to resort to i
anything that off red. Os this there are .
instanees too numerous to mention. I
The world is full of so-called educated j
men who don’t know anything of any
importance, considering the kind of .
knowlcge which the needs of the country |
demand. There is a need of skilled me
chanics, capable, active men, instead of '
doctors, lawyers, ministers and clerks.
It is a question of great importance i
not only to the young, but to the parents, j
this of preparing their children for a ;
business wherein they can not only earn I
their daily bread, but secure to them- '
selves some of the comforts and conven- I
iences of life, and an honorable position |
in tho world.
When people get out of tho prevailing |
but foolish notion of thinking that it is
| more honorable to have a profession
than a good trade, and when the reveise
of this rather is taught to the young, it
cannot fail to have a judicious tendency
toward correcting an error which has
been fostered long, and lies close to the
interests of all.
11 every man had an occupation that
was chosen because he was better fitted
for it than for any other, he would be in
a condition to enjoy much in life, and
i his sphere of usefulness and influence
would be greatly enlarged. Practical
education, with a careful consideration I
of one’s abilities and deficiencies, with |
an adaptedness to the wants and needs I
of our land, cannot fail to make our con- i
dition much pleasanter and our labor
more renumerative.
An Indiana; olis scissors grinder claim
to have been with the Duke of Welling
ton in forty battles, and that he received
132 sword cuts and eleven gunshot
1 wounds. We don’t believe the Duke of
' Wellington had any use for a scissors
grinder. The Duke was not editing ■
paper, as we understand it. Still, if the
Duke did have a scissors grinder, wh >
went around with his grinding machine,
' 'inging a bell and shouting the way
they do nowadays, we don’t blame t
Duke’s neighbors for stabbing him 132
limes and shooting him eleven tin.<■>
with a gun. He deserved it.—/'' </ >
i Sun.
Men of great genius and large heart
sow the seeds of a new degree of pro
’ gress in tho world, but they bear fruit
only after many years. >
“Prussian Ledder.”
[New Orleans Times,]
If there is a merchant in New Orleans
who can sell goods at any price he
chooses to fix on them, Rube Iloffenstein,
who keeps a clothing and shoe store on
Poydras street, is the man.
One day a customer entered his estab
lishment and inquired:
“Have you any low quarter gaiters?”
“Certainly, my front. I hnfany sdyle
you wish, und someding dot vas neat.
Now here vas a pair us gaiters vat is
made us Prussian ledder, de pest kind
vat is known, und 1 dinks dey vill suit
you. Suppose yon dry dem on.”
“All right,” replied the customer.
“Vait, my front, and I’ll put a leedle
bowder in. Now dry deni. Ah, vat
potter shoe you vant dan dat? It vits
shust as if somebody takes your meas
ure.”
“It’s too tight across the instep,” . aid
the customer, rubbing the spot with his
fingers.
“It vill sdretch, my dear sir,” replied
Hofl’enstein persuasively, “dot ledder
vas made expressly for sdretehing.”
“But the shoe pinches my toes, also.”
“Dot is noding; it vill go vay de first
time it gets vet. You don’ vant to buy
a pair us shoos more as dree sizes too
big, und go around de ladies mit your
feet looking like a gouple of railroad
scrapers. It vould boa shame, you
know. ”
“What do you ask for the shoes?”
“Only seex dollars.”
“Jerusalem! That’s too much.”
‘Well, my dear sir, you must, recollect
dat dem shoes vas made of Prussian led
der, and ledder dero vas scarce. My
uncle vat lifs dere write me last veek,
und said dat ledder vas so scarce dey
don’t make harness mit it any longer.
All de harness dere is now made of
wool.”
“I tell you what I’ll do,” said the cus
tomer, examining the shoe closely, “PH
give you four dollars.”
“My g-r racious! A Prussian ledder
shoe for four dollars ven it costs me more
as five dollars and fifty cents laid at the
depot down, mid the profit on dem don’t
pay for the gas. My g-r-r-acious, vat’s
de matter mit de people?”
“Well, I’m not going to give $6 for
those shoes,” said the customer, moving
toward the door, “they are not worth
it.”
‘‘Veil, my frent, take them along for
$4, und call around again some odder
day.”
The customer paid tor the shoes and
taking bis parcel, left the store.
“Herman,” inquired Hofl’enstein of
his clerk, “vat vas de cost brice of dem
split ledder shoes I shust sold de gentle
man?”
“Von dollar und a half, sir.”
‘•My g-r-r-acious, Herman, dink how
small de profit vas. if pisness, you
know, Herman, don’t get petter it vill
preak all de store up.
Possibilities of Cotton Production.
It may be well to remark at the out
set that the production of cotton in the
South is practically without limit. It
was 1830 before the American crop
leached 1,000,0011 bales, and the highest
jsiiiit ever reached in the days of slav
ery was a trifle over 4,500,000 bales.
The crop of 1880-81 is about. 2,000,001)
in excess of tiiis, and there are those
who believe that a crop of 8,000,000
bales is among the certainties of the
next few years. Tho heavy increase in
the cotton crop is due entirely to the
increase of cotton acreage brought
about by tho use of fertilizers. Mill
ions of acres of land, formerly thought
to be beyond the possible limit of the
cotton belt, have been made the best of
cotton hinds by being artificially en
riched. In North Carolina alone the
limit, of cotton production has been
moved twenty miles northward and
twenty miles westward, and the half of
Georgia on which no cotton was grown
twenty years ago now jiroduces fully
half tho crop of the State. The “area
of low production ” as the Atlantic
States are brought to the front by arti
ficial stimulation is moving westward,
and is now central in Alabama and
Florida. But the increase in acreage, as
large as it is, will be but a small factor
in the increase of production, compared
to the intensifying of the land now in
use. Under the. present loose system of
planting, the average yie.d is only one
bale to three acres. This could be easi
ly increased to a bale an acre. In
Georgia five bales have been raised on
one acre, and a yield of three bales to
the acre is credited to several localities.
President Morehead, of the Mississippi
Valley Cotton Planters’ Association,
says that the entire cotton crop of tho
present year might have been easily
raised in fourteen counties along tho
Mississippi river. It will be seen,
therefore, that the capacity of the
South to produce cotton is practically
limitless, and, when we consider the
enormous demand for cotton goods now
opening up from new climes and peo
ples, we may conclude that the near
future will see crops compared to which
the crop of the past year, worth $300,-
000,000, will seem small.— Henry IP.
Grady, in Harper'* Mayazinc.
Hint to Sportsmen.
A man from the country stepped into
a gun-shop in Austin, Texas, to purchase
a gun. A muzzle-loading gnu was shown
him, but he said he preferred a breech
loader.
“On account of it being easier and
quicker to load ? ”
“ No, it’s not that. I had an old mus
ket, 1 loaded it at the muzzle, but it
went of! at the breech and nearly blew
my head off. Instead of u gun that loads
at the muzzle and fires <3l at the Ini ech,
I want one that I '-an load at the breculi
i and the off at the other end.”
NO. 46.
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Adulteration.
There seem to be very good reasons
why the pessimists should call a halt
upon the genius of invention until some
force cJh be made available to regulate
his movements. It is very generally
acknowledged that the world is growing
better as it grows older, tad no doubt it
is, but the progress of invention and dis
covery, although in the main beneficial
to mankind, is bringing forth things that
must of necessity exert an injurious in
fluence. Charles Reade, in one of his
novels, speaks of some old solid silver
plate, made in the ancient days when
things were made honestly. ”** Not,” he
says, “ because the workmen were more
honest than they are to-day, but because
they didn’t know how to cheat.” As the
world grows older, people learn more and
more how to cheat, and the people who
don’t want to be cheated have to study
closer and closer to learn how to circum
vent it. It is a good deal like the
inventions of armorers. Every few years
a gun is produced, the projectile from
which will pierce any known obstruction,
and then other armorers exert themselves
to get up an armor that it cannot pierce.
And so it goes on, and the wonder is
where it is all to end. It is so with in
vent!' hi and discovery in other directions.
Chemists are finding out more ami more
how to adulterate food and its ingredients
until it is almost dangerous to eat any
thing but primary substances. Ever and
anon accounts appear iu the papers of a
family poisoned by eating or drinking
this, that or tho other, until one hardly
knows what indulgence of appetite may
be considered safe. There is u standing
appeal to legislation to correct these
evils, but legislation, although it may
have mitigated the danger, has not, as
yet, entirely removed it. It would seem
to be an easy matter to treat this subject
in away to assure the people that what
they eat and drink need not prove in
jurious on account of impurity or
adulteration. If there is an offence in
the calendar calling for the most condign
punishment, it is that of adulteration.
Let us have laws, and an enforcement of
them, that will make it safe to eat and
drink what purports to be healthful and
nt ttritious. — Hodon Budget,
A Drop of Water.
We read frequently of the drowning
of good swimmers, who suddenly sink m
tho water without any apparent cause.
The common explanation of such an ac
ei'le’it is that the swimmer is seized
with er amps; but an English naval
otiicer offers a different solution of the
phenomenon. He bases his theory on
his own experience. His ship was lying
for a long time oil Aden harbor, and it
was the practice for cricketing parties to
swim from the vessel to the shore every
evening, having their clothes sent in a
small boat. Os course there was a race
to see who would get to the beach first.
The writer in the course of a sharp
sting 'de for tho lead opened his mouth
to breathe, and some of the spray flying
in the wind got into his throat and took
the passage down the trachea. “I could
neither,” he says, “get any breath in,
nor any out, and I soon began to feel
that I was dying on top of the water.
There must have been a dozen men close
to me, but I could not speak, much less
call to them. I kept swimming on for
the shore. -In about thirty seconds my
senses began to leave me. I censed to
swim, and my legs went down, when
luckily for me they touched the bottom ;
a violent jump helped me to cough up
the drop of water. I staggered on shore
and fell quite exhausted on the beach,
much to tlic surprise of all the men witli
me. ” It is the opinion of this gentleman
that many fatal accidents to swimmers
are due simply to a drop of water in the
wind-pipe. A conclusive proof that they
are not due to cramp is a fact that a man
rescued within two minutes of sinking in
this mysterious maimer is beyond all
hope of resuscitation.
Home Life for the Blind.
In an address before the College for
the Blind, at Upper Noiwood, Henry
Fawcett, the blind Postmaster General
of England, said that, speaking of his
own experience, the greatest service that
could be, rendered to the blind was to
enable them to live as far as possible the
same life as if they had not lost their
sight. They should not be imprisoned
in institutions or separated from their
friends. Few who had not experienced
it could imagine the indescribable joy to
them of home life. Some persons hesi
tated to speak to the blind about out
ward objects. There could be no great
er error. The pleasantest and happiest
hours of his life were those when he was
with his friends, who talked about every
thing they saw just as if he was not
present; who in a room talked about
the pictures, when walking described
the scenery they were passing through,
and who described the people they met.
When with the blind, people should
talk with them about and describe every
thing they saw. The speaker concluded
by remarking that there was plenty of
gixid will to assist the blind, but what
was required was better organization.
A Cheerful Set of Folks.
The Lepchas, of India, are Buddhists,
short in stature, bulky and of fair com
plexion, their features being distinctly
of the Mongolion type. They are gross
feeders, gorging themselves constantly
to repletion, and eating the flesh of the
elephant, rhinoceros and monkey. Their
habits are nomadic. They do not usu
ally live longer than three years in one
place. They buy their wives for prices
varying rom 40 to 500 rupees, and,
if they ve no money, will serve their
fathers- -law as bondsmen in recom
pense.
Old men’s eyes are like old men’s
memories ; they are strongest for things
a long way off. r|
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FACTS FOR THE CURIOUS.
One oyster may lat as many as 2,000,-
000 eggs a year.
A blow from tho leg of an ostrich
will break a man's leg.
A .wolf, like a tiger, having once
eaten-man, prefers him. to all else for a
dinner, and if he attacks a man it is
proof that ho has already dined off oue
or had hydrophobia.
The sea cucumber, one of the curious
jelly bodies that inj taint the ocean, can
practically efface himself when in danger
by squueamg the warn’.mit- of his body
and forcing himself into a narrow crack
—so narrow as not to be visible to the
naked eye. He can throw out nearly
w hole of his inside, and yet live and grow
it again.
According to a’writer in JVature, the
small minratory birds that are unable to
perform the flight of 350 miles across the
Mediterranean sea are carried across on
the backs of cranes. In tho autumn
many flocks of.cranes may be seen com
ing from the north, with the first cold
blast from thut quarter, flying low, and
uttering a peculiar cry, as if of alarm,
as they circle over the cultivated plains.
Little birds of ’every species may bo
seen flying u]>to them,-while the twit
tering songs of those already comfortably
settled upon their backs may be dis
tinctly heard. But for this kind pro
vision of nature, numerous varieties of
small birds would become extinct in
northern countries, as the cold winters
would kill them.
Bank of England notes are made
from pure white linen cuttings—never
from rags that have been worn. So
carefully is the paper prepared that even
the number of dips into the pulp made
by each individual workman is regis
tered on a dial by machinery, and the
sheets are carefully counted and booke*
to each person through whoso hands
they pass. The printing is done by a
most curious process within the bunk
building. There is an elaborate ar
rangement for securing that no note
shall be exactly like any other in exist
ence; consequently there never has been
a duplicate banknote except by forgery.
The stock of paid notes for seven years
is said to amount to 94,000,000, and to
fill 10,000 boxes, which, if placed side
by side, would cover over three miles in
extent.
In England the north side of a church
yard ih objected to a placu oi‘ burial.
The old ecclesiastical reason is this :
“ Tho east is God’s side, where His
throne is sot; the west is man’s side, tho
Galilee of the Gentiles; the south is the
side of the angels and of tho ‘ spirit"
made just,’ where the sun shines in its
strength. Tho north is tho devil's side,
where Satan and his legion lurk to catch
the unwary.” Some churches have still
a “ devil’s door” in the north wall, which
wiiscpened nt baptisms and commun
ions to let the devil out. Mjles .Ever
dale, in his “ Praying for tho Dead,”
A. D. 1535, says: “As they die, so shall
they arise; if in faith in the Lord, to
wardthesouth, * * * and shall arise
in glory; if in upbelief, * * * to
ward the north, then are they past all
hope.”
The disproportion of tho costs of a
lawsuit to the damages obtained was
probably never greater than in a case
argued bj William H. Seward in 1848.
A newspiqier addressed to a Miss Felton
was received at the Syracuse postofflee.
The Postmaster refused to deliver the
paper without letter postage, because the
initials of the sender were on tho wrap
per. The lady sued in a Justice’s comt
for tho value of the paper, and was
awarded 6 confs damages. Tho Post
master appealed, and the case, was car
ried successively to the Court of Com
mon Pleas, tho Supreme Court of tho
State, the Court of Appeals and the
United States Supremo Court, each af
firming the original decision. When the
case entered the last tribunal $136.90 in
costs had been added to the 6 cents dam-
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The Wyoming Method.
San Francisco Chronicle.
They have learned how to live in Hil
liard, Wyoming territory, and are pleased
with their lesson. As often as they
get out of meat they replenish this way.
A band of wicked-looking citizens go
down to the Union Pacific track a ways,
to where the trains run slowly and
await the passage of the through express
with its palace cars and tender passen
gers. As it is heard in the distance they
take their places. A stuff man made of
straw is laid out beside two deal coffins,
a bit of baggage keeping his face from
being seen, while the gang gather around
a living victim, whom they arc about to
hang to a telegraph pole. It is a slim
chance for the poor fellow, but the pas
sengers run wild nt the sight. Tho train
is stopped. Volunteers run back to the
the scene. Explanation: Two noted
horse-thieves are the scourge of the dis
trict, survivor penitent now, but tho
best time to hang him is when we have
him. He’s done thousand’s of dollars of
damage. This suggests a ransom. The
passengers take up a contribution and
buy the poor devil’s life for him. Then
they carried him on to Hilliard and
leave him. “Citizens in carriages”
come riding home later with the ransom,
which they divide without a quarrel, and
there is peace and pleasantry in Hilliard.
Adipocf.re is an oilv, waxy substance,
formed from the soft parts of animal
bodies buried in damp soils or under
water. It is the substance that human
bodies sometimes change into, giving
rise to the idea that they petrify.
The king-becoming graces—devotion,
patience, courage, fortitude.
